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techrecoveryTwo posts inside a week... this is a first for me. I don't normally encounter these levels of stupidity.
Call from a customer saying that half his phone lines and internet in some places on his campus site have gone down. We dispatch someone the next morning. They return flabbergasted.
An entire rack is gone.
A 42u rack, two 24 port POE switches, E1 extenders plus 2 fibre trays; all gone.
The fibres had been yanked hard out of the fibre trays by brute force and all utterly destroyed.
Did I mention they have no idea who did it or when because this particular building is mainly used by outside contractors, but noone ever thought to stop them from destroying an armoured cable marked 'DANGER - LASER - DO NOT TOUCH' and wheeling out an entire rack of kit that didn't belong to them.
Estimated cost to get them up and running again and in under 24 hours is running upwards of £10k (new rack, 2 new switches, 2 new fibre trays, splicing and engineering time).
Noone in the office can still quite wrap their heads around this.
Call from a customer saying that half his phone lines and internet in some places on his campus site have gone down. We dispatch someone the next morning. They return flabbergasted.
An entire rack is gone.
A 42u rack, two 24 port POE switches, E1 extenders plus 2 fibre trays; all gone.
The fibres had been yanked hard out of the fibre trays by brute force and all utterly destroyed.
Did I mention they have no idea who did it or when because this particular building is mainly used by outside contractors, but noone ever thought to stop them from destroying an armoured cable marked 'DANGER - LASER - DO NOT TOUCH' and wheeling out an entire rack of kit that didn't belong to them.
Estimated cost to get them up and running again and in under 24 hours is running upwards of £10k (new rack, 2 new switches, 2 new fibre trays, splicing and engineering time).
Noone in the office can still quite wrap their heads around this.
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Date: 2009-06-24 01:51 pm (UTC)I have a suggestion for the future... and it actually worked on a cadet.
Friend of mine (civilian) had cookies and candy in her drawer where she worked. This cadet kept coming in and stealing her sweets. She complained and was ignored. So she stuck a bunch of mousetraps in her drawer. And the little bastard tried to get her arrested for assault, after being repeatedly warned to stay out of her drawer.
...after his superior told the cadet he got caught by his own stupidity, and inability to listen, the cadet stopped going into her drawer.
One thing I would add though, on top of the mousetraps around the racks... webcams so it could be uploaded on Youtube. :)
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Date: 2009-06-24 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-24 03:27 pm (UTC)...I also like the way you think, with the grounding pole and cattle-fence transformer... muahahahaha!
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Date: 2009-06-25 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-25 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-24 04:07 pm (UTC)Just be sure you isolate the racks and the cables from ground. No big deal if it's all fiber. :D
Might want to use something like a HVPS out of a laser printer, or something, though, it's DC and a lot cleaner EMI-wise, and with enough capacitance, it'll still pack quite a punch. :)
I did not say this. I was not here.
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Date: 2009-06-26 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-24 04:51 pm (UTC)